Software Engineer

20% of people get comped meals by their employer, meaning they eat in the office, most if not all days. This includes Google.

35% of people eat in "subsidized" onsite or on-campus cafeterias and foodcourts. This tends to include Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple.

15% of people will go to local area eateries, grab their food to-go, then return to the site to keep their time offsite to a minimum, then eat at their desk. Personal orders to Grubhub, etc. fall in this category, and this category is growing.

15% of people will go to area eateries, dine in. These tend to be upper management, as it's easier to argue that it's a working lunch.

15% skip all meals or snack on food brought from home.

If you're making $80/hr., a one-hour lunch break unpaid makes your lunch about $100, so it's a very expensive decision to take a continental-style lunch offsite.

If you think as a big part of your job, your employer derives a free benefit from your time spent offsite. If you lose focus by spending time offsite, your employer derives an expensive benefit by feeding you free lunch.

It depends on the company and the culture. Here I usually take 30-45 mins to eat my lunch brought from home + talk to other people eating lunch. Some go out and take a full hour. A lot of non-developers, interestingly enough, always eat food while working.

I count lunch break as part of my time at work. My employer doesn't require me to punch in or punch out. People don't stay longer than 8 hours a day much though.